“There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
—Paulo Freire
Since we read “How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner…” which appeared as the introduction to the 2007 edition of Best American Non-required Reading this week, I thought it would be nice to share some music. This is from the album Illinoise and the song is “Decatur or Round of Applause for Your Step-Mother!”
I hope you enjoy it.
Due Friday:
In the Essay Connections book, part one is called “On Writing,” and it includes essays about writing. You need to choose two of the first three essays in that section, read them and journal about what you have read. Another part of the book is called “Determining Ideas in a Sequence” (I don’t have the book with me, so I can’t tell you the page number, but if you look in the table of contents, you will find it). You need to choose any two essays in that section and read them and write a journal entry about whatever you choose to read. Additionally, you need to outline a rhetorical analysis about any of the essays in either section. You may choose to outline one of the essays you wrote about, or you may choose a different one. For the outline, you need to provide information about the following:
Author, audience, purpose, structure (see today’s handout), and appeals (ethos- appeals to outside sources or author’s credibility, pathos– appeals to the audience’s emotion, logos– appeals to audience’s sense of logic) to evaluate the essay’s success or failure.
Also due tomorrow are journal responses to Beginner’s Mind, How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner, and The Politics of Language.
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